Why did Buddhism spread outside India but Jainism could not?

As a western Theravada Buddhist of only seven years standing I will try to give my perspective. There’s something like ten times the number of Buddhists in the U.K. than there are Jains according to the figures I’ve seen from census data 2011. read more

But as a spiritual force it still exists’. As regards Hinduism he said it went through three phases, Vedic religion, Brahmanism and Hinduism. It was during the Brahmanism period that Buddhism was born. It was not true that after the days of Shankaracharya Buddhism was dead in India. It was going on for years together. read more